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Author: David R. Fontijn
Publisher: Sidestone Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 420
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work focuses on the Bronze Age metal finds of one small European region, the southern Netherlands. It looks at the evidence for the selective deposition of metal objects, and discusses the "cultural biographies" of bronze weapons, ornaments, and axes.
Author: Heidrun Stebergløkken
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2015-10-31
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1784911593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitual landscapes and borders are recurring themes running through Professor Kalle Sognnes' long research career. This anthology contains 13 articles written by colleagues from his broad network in appreciation of his many contributions to the field of rock art research.
Author: Lutz Kà ¤ppel
Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 3847102524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Holy Landscape" is a term frequently used to describe a multidimensional phenomenon. What this actually comprises is hard to define. Precisely this question is addressed in this volume. The "holy landscape" depends on people's Weltanschauung and is influenced by their respective culture and ethos. It is not just a question of religious buildings and rituals, nor is a mere matter of explicating terms such as "pure" and "impure", magic and myths; it is about an expressive space in which the "ceremony and mood of rites and cults" take place. The contributions also deal with the emergence and continuing development of the term "holy landscape" and the changing expressions of religious mood.
Author: Dag Øistein Endsjø
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781433101816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the first monk in the desert, Antony became an early Christian superstar, eclipsing his many ascetic predecessors. The introduction of asceticism into the wilderness also represented an encounter between Christian and Hellenistic ideas. For centuries Greeks had considered the uncultivated geography intrinsically primordial, a chaotic place where man struggled to remain human. The wilderness represented an eternal ordeal, where man always faced fierce beasts, disorder, and death, but also where simultaneously he could attain boundless wealth, wisdom, and even physical immortality. Through Athanasius of Alexandria's fourth-century biography of Antony, we learn how the Christian appropriation of Greek ideas on geography, bodies and immortality raised asceticism to an entirely new level. Placed in his uncultivated landscape, Antony became a true martyr, an athlete of God, and a holy man able to retrieve the bodily incorruptibility lost in the Fall, which all Christians could look forward to at the end of times. In this way Athanasius employed a traditional Greek worldview to demonstrate the superiority of Christianity over Paganism, which never promised ordinary people anything but an eternal existence as dead and disembodied souls.
Author: Tom Bloemers
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 9089641556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basic problem is to what extent we can know past and mainly invisible landscapes, and how we can use this still hidden knowledge for actual sustainable management of landscape's cultural and historical values. It has also been acknowledged that heritage management is increasingly about 'the management of future change rather than simply protection'. This presents us with a paradox: to preserve our historic environment, we have to collaborate with those who wish to transform it and, in order to apply our expert knowledge, we have to make it suitable for policy and society. The answer presented by the Protection and Development of the Dutch Archaeological-Historical Landscape programme (pdl/bbo) is an integrative landscape approach which applies inter- and transdisciplinarity, establishing links between archaeological-historical heritage and planning, and between research and policy.
Author: Larisa Hunter
Publisher: The Three Little Sisters
Published:
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1959350358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is book one in a series of books that are linked to a custom tarot/oracle deck of the same name. This series is a mixture of Heathenry, Druid, and Irish witchcraft practices from the authors. It explores the concepts of the transition of the dead from person to divine personhood.
Author: Celeste Ray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1351167707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. Historical Ecology draws from archaeology, archival research, ethnography, the humanities and the biophysical sciences to merge the history of the Earth’s biophysical system with the history of humanity. Considering landscape as the spatial manifestation of the relations between humans and their environments through time, the authors in this volume examine the multi-directional power dynamics that have shaped settlement, agrarian, monumental and ritual landscapes through the long-term field projects they have pursued around the globe. Examining both biocultural stability and change through the longue durée in different regions, these essays highlight intersectionality and counterpoised power flows to demonstrate that alongside and in spite of hierarchical ideologies, the daily life of power is heterarchical. Knowledge of transtemporal human–environmental relationships is necessary for strategizing socioecological resilience. Historical Ecology shows how the past can be useful to the future.
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0521853753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the ways in which archaeologists study the recent past (c.AD 1500 to the present).
Author: David Robert Fontijn
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Published: 2013
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ISBN-13: 9789088902154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna Sörman
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-11-29
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1000986217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBroken Bodies, Places and Objects demonstrates the breadth of fragmentation and fragment use in prehistory and history and provides an up-to-date insight into current archaeological thinking around the topic. A seal broken and shared by two trade parties, dog jaws accompanying the dead in Mesolithic burials, fragments of ancient warships commodified as souvenirs, parts of an ancient dynastic throne split up between different colonial collections... Pieces of the past are everywhere around us. Fragments have a special potential precisely because of their incomplete format – as a new matter that can reference its original whole but can also live on with new, unrelated meanings. Deliberate breakage of bodies, places and objects for the use of fragments has been attested from all time periods in the past. It has now been over 20 years since John Chapman’s major publication introducing fragmentation studies, and the topic is more present than ever in archaeology. This volume offers the first European-wide review of the concept of fragmentation, collecting case studies from the Neolithic to Modernity and extending the ideas of fragmentation theory in new directions. The book is written for scholars and students in archaeology, but it is also relevant for neighbouring fields with an interest in material culture, such as anthropology, history, cultural heritage studies, museology, art and architecture.
